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Iraq Foils Plot to Put {421 al-Qaida} Terrorists at Posts {around Green Zone}
Yahoo/AP ^ | 03/14/06 | BASSEM MROUE

Posted on 03/14/2006 11:00:37 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Iraqi interior minister said Tuesday that authorities had foiled an al-Qaida plot that would have put hundreds of its men at critical guard posts around Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, home to the U.S. and other foreign embassies as well as the Iraqi government.

A senior Defense Ministry official said the 421 al-Qaida fighters were actually recruited to storm the U.S. and British embassies and take hostages. Several ranking Defense Ministry officials have been jailed in the plot, the official said on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information.

Interior Minister Bayan Jabr, in an interview with The Associated Press, said the 421 al-Qaida recruits were one bureaucrat's signature away from acceptance into an Iraqi army battalion whose job is to control the gates and main squares in the Green Zone. The plot was discovered three weeks ago.

"You can imagine what could happen to a minister or an ambassador while passing through these gates when those terrorists are there," Jabr said in the interview conducted at his office inside the Green Zone — a 2-square-mile hunk of prime real estate on the west bank of the Tigris River. The area is a maze of concrete blast walls, concertina wire and checkpoints.

The Defense Ministry official said the plot was uncovered by the military intelligence and the General Intelligence department that works under the government.

The Green Zone has been attacked in the past with mortar rounds and rockets. A number of car bombs driven by suicide attackers have been detonated in the past two years at the entrances, killing scores of people.

On Oct. 14, 2004, two al-Qaida members carried out a suicide attack inside the zone, hitting a market and a cafe. Six people were killed, including four Americans, and 20 people were


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
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To: bnelson44

They were tried and sentanced likely in Sadr's new sharia court according to Omar.


41 posted on 03/14/2006 11:34:41 AM PST by jmc1969
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To: Allegra

May be a bogus story planted by Interior.


42 posted on 03/14/2006 11:35:05 AM PST by bnelson44 (Proud parent of a tanker! (Charlie Mike, son))
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To: Allegra
Any truth to this AP report?

March 14, 2006 at 10:52:11 PST
Electricity Hits Three-Year Low in Iraq
By CHARLES J. HANLEY and SAMEER N. YACOUB

43 posted on 03/14/2006 11:35:33 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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To: jmc1969

Not a good thing, but understandable.


44 posted on 03/14/2006 11:35:49 AM PST by bnelson44 (Proud parent of a tanker! (Charlie Mike, son))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

"The overstressed network is producing less than half the electricity needed to meet Iraq's exploding demand."

The story doesn't match the headline.


45 posted on 03/14/2006 11:37:44 AM PST by bnelson44 (Proud parent of a tanker! (Charlie Mike, son))
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
Ha!... Defeating these guys or killing them isn't sufficient. You have to humiliate them. They hate being humiliated more than they hate being killed (well, that's the official muzzie line anyway). That's why humiliating the terrorists is a big no-no to traitorous 'rats. If you humiliate muzzies, you just might defeat them. And that would be a big feather in George Bush's hat, and a giant victory for America, which 'rats couldn't abide.

So... Time to bring out the panties and the cameras if they ever try a raid like this on the Green Zone... Have big sweaty Marines with big, stinky, sweaty, bare feet (preferrably all having a bad case of athlete's foot) standing around posing, using defeated muzzie faces for foot stools.

46 posted on 03/14/2006 11:38:27 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: bnelson44

I kind of thought it was a bad news headline but a somewhat goodnews story!


47 posted on 03/14/2006 11:39:16 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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To: bnelson44

If and I do say if you are right it would be extremely bad news because it would mean Sadr and Harkim are kicking out high level Defense Ministry officals and filling them up with their goons.


48 posted on 03/14/2006 11:42:14 AM PST by jmc1969
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Yikes! That would have been a bad year.


49 posted on 03/14/2006 11:42:15 AM PST by Rockitz (After all these years, it's still rocket science.)
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To: Sthitch
I must respectfully disagree very strongly.

I believe that the MSM has been waiting for a TET style offensive that they can blow out of proportion. remember all that they have is Vietnam. They have to peg this war as another Vietnam. Remember that most Americans under the age of 40 believe that Vietnam was a REPUBLICAN war. The MSM has successfully made the war as bad as possible. IF the islamofacists actually take an embassy or two that would swing the election here and then sow the seeds of pullout and defeat in Iraq. That is the real goal of the enemies of freedom. (islamofacist and the MSM)
50 posted on 03/14/2006 11:43:52 AM PST by grapeape ("If your attack is going too well, you're probably walking into an ambush.")
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Any truth to this AP report?

That's a bunch of twisting and distoring as well. (And did I NEED to be reminded of the 100+ temperatures coming as early as May? LOL)

Yes, the power still glitches off in Baghdad a few times a day, but outputs are actually better now than before the war. It's just that Baghdad got all the power back then.

The electrical grid is improving right along with everything else. Once AQ and the Iranians stop all their cr@p, they can settle down and get it fixed for good.

51 posted on 03/14/2006 11:45:21 AM PST by Allegra (Please pray for peace in Iraq.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Bump!


52 posted on 03/14/2006 11:46:07 AM PST by Gucho
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Bttt


53 posted on 03/14/2006 11:52:47 AM PST by aculeus
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To: Allegra; blam; jmc1969; Marine_Uncle; bnelson44
Decided to post the story along with some comments ....

Electricity Hits Three-Year Low in Iraq ~ Bad News Headline/ Good News Story....

Sort of illustrates the mindset of the MSM!!!

54 posted on 03/14/2006 11:57:07 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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To: jmc1969
Fascinating stuff on this blog. Mookie may prove to be a longer term problem for Iraq than al qaida.
55 posted on 03/14/2006 11:59:19 AM PST by GeorgefromGeorgia
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
I trust they weren't monitoring telephone calls of Iraqi citizens on Iraqi soil!!

< /sarc>

56 posted on 03/14/2006 11:59:20 AM PST by Thom Pain (Supporting the Constitution is NOT right wing. It is centrist.)
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To: headstamp; jmc1969; Cap Huff; Southack

This was the "big bang" we were expecting.


57 posted on 03/14/2006 12:02:17 PM PST by Dog
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Sort of illustrates the mindset of the MSM!!!

Yep. In a nutshell.

I watch CNN (because it's the only English-speaking news channel I can get in my room) and get infuriated with Anish Ramen (or whatever his name is) and his lying, twisted reports he gives about things I see on a daily basis.

CNN's HQ is very close to where I am. I'm often tempted to go out on my balcony and yell "Stop your outright lying, you leftist scumbg!" while he's doing his little standup.

I'm going to bed now. I hope the terrorists don't come crashing through the gates while I'm asleep.

(Hey, you have to be somewhat cavalier about these things around here...LOL)

58 posted on 03/14/2006 12:02:19 PM PST by Allegra (Please pray for peace in Iraq.)
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To: Chena
MSNBC now has the story:

Iraq: Al-Qaida plotted to take embassy hostages

59 posted on 03/14/2006 12:03:48 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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To: Allegra

Have a good sleep, and a safe night.


60 posted on 03/14/2006 12:04:58 PM PST by fanfan ( "We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality" - Ayn Rand)
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